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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5350427" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>I think what Mercurius is saying is much more innocuous that people might be taking it to mean. What I gather from his posts... he is basically saying "WotC is not releasing any material in an 8 month span that I want to buy".</p><p></p><p>Which is perfectly understandable, and is definitely disappointing, if he has the money to spend but nothing to spend it on. He wants to buy 4E products that he <em>wants</em> to buy... and they are not releasing anything that fits the description. I can't blame him for feeling that way.</p><p></p><p>But that being said... I also think Mercurius might be a bit blinded by his perceptions, as opposed to what the reality might be. I mean... would he have these same thoughts if rather than 12 hardcovers in the first 8 months... they held back the release of 4 of them? Would he still be "leery" of WotC (as he says he is) if they decided "You know, rather than release the Dark Sun campaign book and the creature in the same month, we'll release the creature book a month later so there's less 'gap'?" What exactly does that solve? Would that actually make things "better" per se? Or holding off on <em>Dungeon Magazine Annual</em> until November, rather than 6 months earlier? Does WotC all of a sudden regain standing in his eyes because he now has the potential to buy the exact same 12 books... but now it's over all 12 months of 2010 rather than just the first 8?</p><p></p><p>Personally... I don't have the same perception as he does. The Fall of 2010 is the season of Essentials... and they've told us this from the very first announcement of the Essentials line. Late 2008 through early 2010 was getting the current base of players up to speed and giving them all the tools they might possibly need to play... late 2010 was trying to get new players back into the fold with Essentials... and then 2011 would be back to trying to help the player base as a whole. That's always been their plan and they've been very up front about it. And to think that just by releasing <em>Tomb of Horrors</em> in December 2010 rather than July 2010 would somehow now "change" their philosophy and make things less scary for the non-Essentials 4E player, to me seems a little bit silly.</p><p></p><p>We got our hardcover books early. We should be thankful to Wizards for that... not now be leery of them because of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 5350427, member: 7006"] I think what Mercurius is saying is much more innocuous that people might be taking it to mean. What I gather from his posts... he is basically saying "WotC is not releasing any material in an 8 month span that I want to buy". Which is perfectly understandable, and is definitely disappointing, if he has the money to spend but nothing to spend it on. He wants to buy 4E products that he [I]wants[/I] to buy... and they are not releasing anything that fits the description. I can't blame him for feeling that way. But that being said... I also think Mercurius might be a bit blinded by his perceptions, as opposed to what the reality might be. I mean... would he have these same thoughts if rather than 12 hardcovers in the first 8 months... they held back the release of 4 of them? Would he still be "leery" of WotC (as he says he is) if they decided "You know, rather than release the Dark Sun campaign book and the creature in the same month, we'll release the creature book a month later so there's less 'gap'?" What exactly does that solve? Would that actually make things "better" per se? Or holding off on [I]Dungeon Magazine Annual[/I] until November, rather than 6 months earlier? Does WotC all of a sudden regain standing in his eyes because he now has the potential to buy the exact same 12 books... but now it's over all 12 months of 2010 rather than just the first 8? Personally... I don't have the same perception as he does. The Fall of 2010 is the season of Essentials... and they've told us this from the very first announcement of the Essentials line. Late 2008 through early 2010 was getting the current base of players up to speed and giving them all the tools they might possibly need to play... late 2010 was trying to get new players back into the fold with Essentials... and then 2011 would be back to trying to help the player base as a whole. That's always been their plan and they've been very up front about it. And to think that just by releasing [I]Tomb of Horrors[/I] in December 2010 rather than July 2010 would somehow now "change" their philosophy and make things less scary for the non-Essentials 4E player, to me seems a little bit silly. We got our hardcover books early. We should be thankful to Wizards for that... not now be leery of them because of it. [/QUOTE]
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